Posted by Ken Walsh on 03/08/06 21:17

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> However it was also the manner in which he tried to tell me that it was all just because of our
> prejudices about ethnicity - White hates Black who hates Latin American who hates Asian who hates
> Middle Eastern... blah blah blah.
>
> When discussing this with the missus after the film, I pointed out that from my perspective
> (living in Swansea, Wales, UK, Europe), generally speaking: Europeans hate Americans, the British
> hate the French, the Welsh hate the English, Swansea residents hate Cardiff residents, my area of
> Swansea hate other areas of Swansea, in my area people on my road hate people from 'the estate',
> people in one part of my road hate their neighbours a few doors up... and it's sod all to do with
> racism or ethnicity - it could be a particular haircut or a piercing, people are just suspicious
> of what they don't know, that's all. We shouldn't be, and consciously we know we shouldn't be, but
> it's universal.

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Nice ramble not seen the film, but your letter is great. The bit above you did not write
that script for that great episode of the `The Likely Lads` did you where he hates the world
all the way up north to his next door neighbour. Brill episode!

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